“The driver and his partner took me to the hospital but disappeared after 20 minutes waiting after repeatedly refusing to give me any details about them.

"I've been unable to work since the incident – and don’t know when I’ll be able to return.

"They took my name and number and said they’d contact me – but they never did”.

The Road Traffic Act 1988 makes it an offence to open “any door of a vehicle on a road so as to injure or endanger any person”, but in the absence of a witness or details of the driver, Mrs Dorrian cannot seek to claim compensation.